Fred Hagen on wed 5 oct 05
My wife is a handbuilder and is looking for templates that will allow her to make a greater variety of shapes. Anyone have any thoughts on where she might find them i.e. internet address,. books etc.
Thanks
Fred Hagen
Peter Cunicelli on wed 5 oct 05
Hi Fred,
My work consists of almost all slab work from templates. I haven't come
across templates online actually. I would recomend drawing out an idea and
try to work with it. I've discovered that the use of 2-D translates in to
some interesting forms in 3-D.
Feel free to email me offline, if you'd like.
Peter
(www.petercunicelli.com)
Vince Pitelka on wed 5 oct 05
Peter Cunicelli wrote:
> My work consists of almost all slab work from templates. I haven't come
> across templates online actually. I would recomend drawing out an idea
> and
> try to work with it. I've discovered that the use of 2-D translates in to
> some interesting forms in 3-D.
I have to heartily second Peter's suggestion. If you use someone else's
templates, then they are to some extent controlling the design of your work.
Please give yourself more credit, and design your own templates. Most of my
work
(http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/gallery/current%20work/current_work.htm) is
slab-built from templates, and I make all of my templates from manila folder
material or poster board. If you are doing a greater volume, you might
consider spraying the templates with a thin coat of fixative or varnish to
make them water resistant, or else use a scroll saw to cut your templates
from plastic laminate. The big home improvement warehouses like Home Despot
often have damaged sheets of Formica or Wilsonart laminate that they will
sell for cheap. Or, look around for a cabinet shop - they probably have an
abundance of scraps that they will sell cheap or give away. A couple of
strips of masking tape on the contact surface of a plastic template will
help keep it from sticking to the clay.
Good luck -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
William & Susan Schran User on thu 6 oct 05
On 10/5/05 8:06 AM, "Fred Hagen" wrote:
> My wife is a handbuilder and is looking for templates that will allow her to
> make a greater variety of shapes. Anyone have any thoughts on where she might
> find them i.e. internet address,. books etc.
I have my students cut out templates from lucite/pexiglass/clear plastic
sheets for both coil built pots and for wheelthrown forms.
--
William "Bill" Schran
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Valice Raffi on thu 6 oct 05
Fred,
I use templates in my handbuilding. You can make them out of copier paper,
amazingly, they hold up very well - I've been using some of those for many
years. Draw the design, then cut it out & lay it on your slab. Sometimes
the templates curl a bit before you start to cut the clay, but you can flip
it over or very lightly spritz it, then lightly press it on to the clay.
After cutting the clay, take the template off right away & lay it flat to
dry. You can also use manilla paper (cut from file folders), or for really
heavy duty, use tar (roofing) paper, you can get scraps easily wherever
there is construction going on.
Valice in Las Cruces, NM
Potters Council member
>My wife is a handbuilder and is looking for templates that will allow her
>to make a greater variety of shapes. Anyone have any thoughts on where she
>might find them i.e. internet address,. books etc.
>Thanks
> Fred Hagen
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